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many fears left Admiral Cornwallis may 

 have failed into Admiral Chriftian's unfor- 

 tunate path ; and, like him, been obliged to 

 trace his courfe back into an Englifti port. 



You will feel no furprife on knowing that 

 many rumours have already obtained cir- 

 culation, all equally uncertain, and, perhaps, 

 equally unfounded, regarding the further move- 

 ments of the St. Domingo divifion. Some infift 

 that we are to go immediately ; others that 

 we are to wait the arrival of Admiral Corn- 

 walHs ; and many that we are not to go at all. 

 At one moment the whole of us are to fail 

 without delay : next we hear that only the 

 cavalry is to go : then it is faid that the bar- 

 rack ships, and a detachment of the hofpital 

 ftafF, only, are to proceed : and, again, we 

 hear it whifpered by fome one, believing him-^ 

 felf to be quite in the fecret, that the horfe 

 fhips, the ftore mips, and the whole of the 

 hofpital department are to go down to St. Do- 

 mingo, and the principal body of the Cork 

 divifion to remain, and affift in the grand ob- 

 jects of the expedition to windward ! Amidft 

 fuch incertitude I can, only, fay as ufual— * 

 continue to write to me at St. Domingo, 



